Chief Managing Director, Europe & APAC
Amy Adams

How do we do this differently? How do we do it better? Why isn’t anyone responding to my midnight e-mails? Every day and most nights, Amy’s inexhaustible energy and incisive ideas help make AFG& a smarter, more invaluable partner for our clients. She holds an MBA from Baruch College at CUNY and has an impressive agency background; over the years, she’s garnered experience in a breadth of categories such as pet care, QSR and finance at the likes of JWT and McCann. Also, she has this superhuman ability to thrive on very little sleep… Which uniquely qualifies her to head up AFGEurope and AFGAsia. Headquartered in Barcelona and working across time zones, Amy spearheads the agency’s efforts around the globe.

Chief Managing Director, US & LATAM
Dawn Terrazas

A little Texas Hill Country, a little Uptown NYC, Dawn brings both grit and elegance. She is an action-oriented brand leader and strategic advisor to global brands, always out ahead of category trends. She has proven success in launching new products as well as helping to grow billion-dollar brands. Dawn cut her teeth at big global networks like Y&R and McCann Erickson, for clients like Colgate-Palmolive, P&G, Capital One, and Mastercard. She currently serves as New Business Lead and heads up AFGNorth America and AFGLatAm.

Founder, Chairman, CEO
Frank Ginsberg

Entrepreneur. Icon. Legend. Artistic Director…all these apply when it comes to Frank Ginsberg. But the title he’s most comfortable with is the one he started with: Art Director. His singular style, distinguished by its differentiating power, has helped build brands like Purina Cat Chow, U.S. Trust, Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Enterprise Rent-A- Car, Bacardi Rums and Van Cleef & Arpels. And that’s just naming a few. His passion for ideas is deep and infectious. Come see the view at AFG& and you’ll feel it too.

Chief Managing Director U.S. & North American
Tara Decoursey

There’s a difference between “hearing” and “listening.” Tara gets that. It’s what has helped her build remarkable business partnerships over a 25-year career. She has won awards from IPG for organic growth and from the Ad Council for campaigns to end hate and discrimination, both of which demonstrate that Tara’s approach is hands-on. From research and development to razor-sharp strategy to final production, Tara is truly a team player. Could explain her die-hard devotion to sports, particularly her beloved New York Yankees. Go Yanks. Go Tara.

Executive Creative Director
Kent Shively

Kent Shively is AFG& Europe’s Executive Creative Director and Chief Bon Vivant. Kent has worked at many prestigious agencies, delivering award winning creative ideas for clients of McCann Erickson San Francisco, JWT New York and Chicago and now AFG&. Kent has worked on strategic brand positioning and product innovation for brands in every category - from packaged goods to luxury goods, from real estate to B2B.

Managing Partner, Client Services
Daniel Taylor

Daniel joined afg& McCann Worldgroup from DDB London in 2011, and as Managing Partner is responsible for the agency´s Purina grocery brands and agency operations. He has a track record of creating comms that strengthen the long-term value of his clients’ brands whilst winning creative awards along the way.

Armed with a degree in psychology, his first agency was at WCRS, a highly creative London independent which shaped his outlook on the value of great work and what truly makes great client relationships. He then moved to DMB&B where he ran many international and local accounts from Fiat to the agency´s huge UK government business and was promoted to Head of Account Management.

In 2003 he joined Dave Trott at CTS as New Business Director, and after 2 successful years was hired by Burkitt DDB as MD. When in 2007 the agency was merged into parent DDB London, he then led the global pitch for Unilever’s Flora & Becel business, and ran the agency´s Nestle Purina EMENA account.

Daniel moved to Barcelona with afg& in 2019 and is fortuitously fluent in Spanish. He is married with 2 grown-up daughters, and for fitness and much needed peace of mind, walks whenever he can.

Managing Partner, Client Services
Dora Kiralyhidi

With over 20+ years’ experience Dora is an inspirational business leader, deeply experienced in the Russian Market, as well as Regional and Global businesses. As the Business Director leading the AFG Moscow Team for 4 years, Dora was the lead on Nestlé Purina, Nesquik and CPW businesses in Russia. A native Hungarian, Dora has run a mix of international and local client businesses across many different categories – including blue chip clients like P&G, McDonald’s, L’Oreal, Henkel, MasterCard, Coca-Cola – and of course, Nestlé. Before joining our regional team, Dora was the Managing Director of FCB Moscow, an IPG sister agency, handling clients such as Beiersdorf, Mondelez, Castorama, Rosbank, Knauf. 
Dora is married and has two gorgeous and witty girls, Olivia and Maya, who are begging for a puppy and will probably get one very, very soon.

Managing Partner Strategy & Brand Development
Paul Criveanu

Paul is a senior marketer and former creative agency leader with diverse international experience across many categories, spanning from e-commerce to FMCG, Fast Food, and Automotive. His experience is rich and entrepreneurial, spanning roles such as CMO of Utkonos (Moscow’s largest grocery ecommerce retailer), COO of DDB Moscow, and even running his own consulting firm.

Paul is a proven leader and a sharp strategic thinker, with first-class analytical and problem-solving skills – he is dedicated to constantly enhancing the quality of agency strategic and creative deliverables.

Romanian by birth and European by evolution, naturally curious about brands, cultures and organizations, Paul’s energy and excitement about solving problems is contagious.

SVP, Managing Partner, Scope Management
Tara Kar

With over 17 years experience, Tara has specialised in delivering pan-European consumer focused integrated campaigns across an array of sectors including high-tech, telecom, spirits, fmcg at agencies Y&R/Wunderman and TBWA/. 
Most notably she has worked across the Nestle Purina Europe portfolio of clients for the past 9 years where she relaunched Dog Chow, helped define and develop the pan-European digital ways of working and attended countless brand engagement sessions.  Tara’s passion to keep the consumer at the heart of all she does ensures that deep insight is present in every communication.

Global Planning Director
Jonathan Schleyer

As a well-traveled Franco-American, Jonathan is a poly-cultural thinker. Growing up in France and having studied business and military strategy at The London School of Economics and at King’s College London, Jonathan is currently based in California where he guides the strategy of brands AFG& serves in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. His experience at AFG includes petcare (Purina), healthcare (Blistex, Dentek, Summer’s Eve, Thera Tears) and many spirit brands (Glenmorangie, Grand Marnier, Moet & Chandon).

Prior to joining AFG& in 2010, Jonathan worked at TBWA\Chiat\Day on food (Uncle Ben’s) and automotive (Nissan), at La Agencia de Orci on automotive (Honda hispanic) and insurance (Allstate hispanic), at The Richards Group on automotive (Hyundai), at McCann-Erickson on petcare (Fancy Feast), automotive (Garrett Turbochargers), restaurants (Ihop), healthcare (Nasal Comfort) and defense (Northrop Grumman) and at J. Walter Thompson on fresh juices food (Bolthouse Farms) and toys/video games (Bandai).

Jonathan is also the author of AFG’s proprietary SEAL strategic process, designed to help brands meaningfully differentiate themselves by simply leveraging, in a distinctive way, the deeper cultural semiotic meaning of their unique equities and history.

Jonathan looks forward to helping brands uncover and unleash their true empowering potential in a way that elevates both people (and sometimes animals) and business results.

Global CFO & COO
Agostino Colotti

Augie once dreamt of being a copywriter. But the only agency job he could find after college was in accounting. He kinda liked it. He went back to school and got an MBA in finance. Fast-forward twenty years and Augie has held senior positions at Havas, Omnicom, and IPG. Renowned for vendor relations and for creating buying power across agency organizations, Augie helms the overall financial operations and diversity efforts of AFG&. He is a coolly efficient manager and numbers guy who also believes that the heart and soul of our business is creative.